SOAP SERIES FOR ORTHOPEDICS PDF

SOAP SERIES FOR ORTHOPEDICS PDF

SOAP SERIES FOR ORTHOPEDICS PDF, I started my ward experience head down and running, eager to finally make contact with real patients. What I found was a confusing world, completely different from anything I had known during the first two yearsof medical school.

New language, foreign abbreviations, and residents too busy to set my bearings straight: Where would I begin? Pocket textbooks, offering medical knowledge in a convenient and portable package,seemed to be the logical solution. Unfortunately, I found myself spending valuable time sifting through large amounts of text, often not finding the answer to my question, and in the process, missing out on teaching points during rounds!

I designed the SOAP series to provide medical students and house staff with pocket manuals that truly serve their intended purpose: quick accessibility to the most practical clinical information in a user-friendly format. At the inception of this project, I envisioned all of the benefits the SOAP format would bring to the reader:

• SOAP SERIES FOR ORTHOPEDICS PDF this model reinforces a thought process that is already familiar to students and residents, facilitating easier long-term retention. • SOAP promotes good communication between physicians and facilitates the teaching/learning process. • SOAP puts the emphasis back on the patient’s clinical problem and not the diagnosis. • In the age of managed care, SOAP meets the challenge of providing efficiency while maintaining quality. • As sound medical-legal practice gains attention in physician training, SOAP emphasizes adherence to a documentation style that leaves little room for potential misinterpretation. Rather than attempting to summarize the contents of a thousand-page textbook into a miniature form, the SOAP series focuses exclusively on guidance through patient encounters. In a typical use, “finding out where to start” or “refreshing your memory” with SOAP books should be possible in less than a minute. Subjects are always confined to two pages, and the most important points have been highlighted. Topics have been limited to those problems you will most commonly encounter repeatedly during your training and contents are grouped according to the hospital or clinic setting. Facts and figures that are not particularly helpful to surviving life on the wards, such as demographics, pathophysiology, and detailed tables and graphs, have purposely been omitted (such information is best studied in a quiet environment using large and comprehensive texts). Congratulations on your achievements thus far and I wish you a highly successful medical career!